Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Universe Quotes
AestheticsBeliefRitualsUniverse I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
ExplorationFutureInnovationTechnologyUniverse The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.
FreedomKnowledgeTransformationUnderstandingUniverse Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.
AgingCalmDeathFreedomUniverse Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
BeautyInner SelfMusicUniverse Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
BeliefReligionRitualsSkepticismUniverse I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.
ChoiceDestinyMusicPassionUniverse I think music was always written in the stars for me. I feel like I really had no choice. If I dared to walk down another path, the universe would push me back towards music.
CreationFundamentalsUniverse If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Cosmic PerspectiveExistenceHumilityScience and DiscoveryUniverse Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they're the center of everything ends up shrinking.
ExplorationLimitlessUniverseUnknown Even Hubble hasn't found yet the end of this universe, and we don't know that it has any end.
ConnectionOptimismPerspectiveSelf-awarenessUniverse Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I'm small but I'm also big. I'm big because I'm connected to the universe, and the universe is connected to me.
CosmologyDark MatterGravityUniverseUnseen Forces We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the effective gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched.
ConvictionEmotionIntelligencePowerUniverse That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
HollywoodInterestRealityScience FictionUniverse While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.
ArtCharmCreativityInspirationUniverse One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output.
ExistenceHumilityPerspectiveUniverse Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
ConnectivityNatureUnityUniverse You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
CreationIntelligenceNatureSpiritualityUniverse I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
Black HolesCosmologyFateTime TravelUniverse Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into?
CommunicationCosmosParticipationSelf-awarenessUniverse 'Cosmos' is an occasion to bring everything that I have, all of my capacity to communicate. We may go to the edge of the universe, but we're going to land right on you: in your heart, in your soul, in your mind. My goal is to have people know that they are participants in this great unfolding cosmic story.